What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Kids Are Healthy and Ready to Learn
demonstrates that physical activity supports academic achievement, well-nourished kids learn better and that healthier practices in schools can increase school revenue.
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It’s going to take a nation of moms, dads and other caring individuals – people just like you – to raise their hands and lend their voices to the fight against childhood obesity so every kid can be healthy and ready to learn.
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Chicago Volunteers transformed an unused space in one school into an indoor fitness center and converted an open, undefined field at another school into a soccer field, complete with bleachers.
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With a $1000 grant, nutrition education and an introduction to Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge – all courtesy of Action for Healthy Kids – teachers at Springhill Lake Elementary School in Greenbelt, Md. were able to make nutrition and physical activity changes that helped create a healthier school.
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How to raise awareness and combat childhood obesity
By mobilizing to create programs
in schools that engage kids in
healthy activities
Schools with opportunities for all students to lead healthier lives
As part of this year's Every Kid Healthy™ Week, Athletico Physical Therapy and Action for Healthy Kids partnered on a FoodTASTIC Family Health Fair at Harlan Community Academy High School on Chicago's South Side.
Jean H. Ragalie, R.D., President of National Dairy Council and Secretary and Treasurer of Action for Healthy Kids' Board of Directors, shares the findings of a new report that reinforce the “Learning Connection”: the link between quality nutrition, including a nutritious breakfast, coupled with physical activity and improved academic performance.
Trying to help school leaders capitalize on the connections between health and learning? Searching for words to communicate how school board and administrator support for a coordinated approach to health contributes to meeting academic achievement goals?
The Learning Connection: What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Kids Are Healthy and Ready to Learn demonstrates that physical activity supports academic achievement, ...
Edison Elementary School, Tacoma, Washington
Faced with an 83 percent free-and-reduced lunch rate as well as a high percentage of families moving in and out of the district, Edison Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash., is continuously looking for ways to help students and their families achieve healthy lifestyles they can sustain. By launching a series of healthy family cooking classes, they were able to do just that.
